MT Dealer Profiles

Motorists waiting at the busy level crossing in Cross Hills, near Keighley in West Yorkshire, have an excellent view of the premises of Just Citroën, a dealership that in the last two years has undergone a remarkable transformation.

By any standards the 2013 results of Ford specialist Peoples were impressive. The group, which has seven outlets based around Edinburgh and Liverpool, doubled profits to £4.047m, with turnover increasing 26.7% to £185.9m to produce the best results in its 30-year history.

When Saab collapsed in 2012 many UK dealers were left looking for new representation. The answer for small Cambridgeshire-based group Buckingham & Stanley was to return to a brand it had walked away from two decades earlier.

Triangle of Chesterfield, a small privately run solus site, provides a textbook study of how to grow profitability with a volume franchise.